|
|||||
|
|
Comment on "A persistent oxygen anomaly reveals the fate of spilled methane in the deep Gulf of Mexico" |
|
| Authors: | Joye Samantha B Leifer Ira MacDonald Ian R Chanton Jeffery P Meile Christof D Teske Andreas P Kostka Joel E Chistoserdova Ludmila Coffin Richard Hollander David Kastner Miriam Montoya Joseph P Rehder Gregor Solomon Evan Treude Tina Villareal Tracy A |
| Institution: | Department of Marine Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA. mjoye@uga.edu |
| Abstract: | Kessler et al. (Reports, 21 January 2011, p. 312) reported that methane released from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon blowout, approximately 40% of the total hydrocarbon discharge, was consumed quantitatively by methanotrophic bacteria in Gulf of Mexico deep waters over a 4-month period. We find the evidence explicitly linking observed oxygen anomalies to methane consumption ambiguous and extension of these observations to hydrate-derived methane climate forcing premature. |
| Keywords: | |
| 本文献已被 PubMed 等数据库收录！ | |